>>>>> "Stan" == Stan Horwitz <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU> writes:

    Stan> On Dec 9, 2006, at 3:55 PM � 12/9/06, Oscar Olsson wrote:
    >> On 2006-12-08 15:52, Stan Horwitz revealed:
    >> 
    SH> I then shut down Vista and I installed the latest NetWorker
    SH> for
    >> Mac client.
    SH> I am running a fully patched and updated system on my MacBook
    >> Pro. I
    SH> installed the client on my MBP, then I changed the start up
    >> script to point
    SH> to my backup server. Trouble is, I could not get any nsrexecd
    >> daemons to run
    SH> at all. They generate a crash long which I cannot interpret.
    >> So you're saying that networker doesn't run at all on OSX on
    >> Intel?  I can understand if they haven't released a native
    >> intel binary, but if it doesn't work at all on intel macs, I
    >> would consider that as a problem. Or is it related to the OSX
    >> release?
    >> 
    >> We currently only back up powerPC based OSX servers though.

We use SEBS, aka Solstice Backup - Sun's rebadged version of
Networker.

After reading all of the documentation and going through Sun's first
level support we had to actually get an escalation to find out that
7.3.2 isn't supported on Intel Macs.  We were told end of first
quarter next year, but not sure if that's for EMC to release it or for
Sun to releast it with changed graphics (which is always a month or
two later).

Don't you love documentation that tells you exactly which file systems
it supports and how much disk space it needs but omits to point out
that it doesn't run on any hardware currently produced that bears the
"Mac" label?  And to have an installer that claims to start the daemon
but doesn't say anything when it immediately crashes just adds icing
to the cake!  

This was the straw that broke the camels back and launched me on my
current search for a replacement for Networker...

David.

    Stan> I downloaded the client from EMC's web site that's
    Stan> advertised as being Mac OS X compatible for 32-bit
    Stan> systems. I used version 7.3 and the nsrexecd processes core
    Stan> dump as soon as they start running on a first generation
    Stan> MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.4.8 and the latest firmware. On
    Stan> the other hand, I use version 7.2.1 on my PowerMac G5
    Stan> workstation and it works fine.

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